The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-04-09

600 OF their capital stock shall have been
subscribed for and $50, 900 actually paid
in.
MADISON, March 30.-Senate bills were
concurred in; Requiring that the bodies oi
all lndisent exUnion soldiers shall be in
tered at the public expense, al an expense
OF not to exceed $50 for each interment;
appropriating $4,000 to the governor q
contingent fund for each of the wears
loS1-S. Bills were passed: Providing that
IN any case where 10 one Is dependent on
an insane patient for support, 81 so per
week shall be taken from the estate of that
patient Tor his care in any state or county
asylum; permitting the state board OF
charities and reform to condemn, in Ger.
tam cases. detective or unhealthy jails,
police stations or lock-ups; prohibiting the
employment OF more persons in any fac.
tory, workshop, ETC., than the laws
oil health will warrant; requiring each
workman to have at least 500 cubic feet Of
air space; compelling all vats ofhot liquids
to be guarded as well as machinery, and
making the penalty for violation to be not
less fhan $40 per day during such viola.
ton; prohibiting any railroad company
from discriminatingi in any way, in regard to
passenger or freight rates, except in behalf
oiproperty belonging to the state and prop.
erty Tor exhibition at agricultural fairs,
the railroad company to be liable for all
damages sustained by any person on ac-
count OF any discrimination against them;
prohibiting state aid to any agricultural
society which has Jailed to pay its pre-
miums in full at its last fair; permitting
county Judges, when sworn evidence war
rants the proceeding, to remove children
from the care OF abusive or negligent
parents or guardians, and making it n
misdemeanor for such children to be en-
ticed from the place provided for them by
the judges; providing that any two or
more employees who shall combine for the
purpose OF preventing any person seeking
employment from obtaining such employ
ment by threats OF the circulation OF the
black list shall be guilty OF misdemeanor,
punishable by a maximum imprisonment
OF twelve months or fine OF not less than
$50 or both; authorizing circuit judges to
appoint an assistant to the district attor-
ney in all cases where the prisoner may be
punished by Imprisonment.
MADISON, March 3l.--In the Assembly
bills were concurred in Making the
standard cranberry barrel 22s. inches high,
16A inches in diameter at the head and Is
inches at the bilge, and making the stand
ard bushel crate 22 inches long, 12A
iCehes wide and X inches deep for the
protection OF fish in inland waters. The
Joint Assembly resolution, asking Congress
to pass law pensioning all exunion
soldiers who were confined in Southern
prisons, was adopted. Bills passed:
Amending the law prohibiting
debtors from giving preference
to creditors, and to secure the equal dis
tribution of property among all creditors;
giving the local authorities the power to
regulate auctions and auctioneers, and
also to compel the payment OF a license
and percentage on their sales by non
resident taxpayers, who visit place tenn
porarily for the purpose OF disposing OF
so-called bankrupt stocks" etc; making
it unlawful for any clerk or inspector OF
elections to issue or write. change or alter
for any person on the day OF any election
ny ballot, and making 1t a mlsdemeanor
for such officer to disclose how any elector
voted, unless as a witness Ill judicial inves-
tigation; removing the necessity OF describ.
ing exempt property in certain cases OF
voluntary assignment; prohibiting boys
under / 6 years OF age from being sent to
state prison, and permitting them to be
sent to the state industrial school till is
years OF age; making the manufacture, sale.
purchase or secretion OF sny explosive, OF
greater violence than ordinary gunpowder,
unless Tor lawful purchases, punishable by
d maximum fine or Imprisonment OF So
600 and two years respectively; requiring
persons handling such explosives to give
formal notice OF the fact to the town, city
or village clerk; and requiring all persons
handling such explosives TO secure a il
cense for the purpose. The Assembly
killed the bill providing that convicts be
employed to print text books for com mon
schools.
MADISON, April 1.-Senate bills concurred
in: Pro vidiDg for the subdivision and plat
ting OF lands owned in severaltv; permitting
but not requiring town and village boards
and common councils to grant pharmacists
permits to cell Intoxicating LIQUORS for
medicinal purposes, and prohibiting phar-
macists from selling such liquor except on
the presentation OF certificate from a
physician. Bills were passed Requiring rail-
way companies to carry livestock in mixed
carloads, providing that different kinds OF
stock are separated by partitions; permit
ting the insurance commissioner TO revoke
the license OF any insurance company which
fails to pay the per cent. fire tax; permit
ting not lees than twenty. five residents OF
the same place, owning property valued at
$50, 600, which they wish to insure, to es-
tablish mutual insurance companies; re-
ducing the rate OF interest on the unpaid
portion Of the purchase money on sales OF
public lands from Z to 5 per cent.